Article: Mary Chapin Carpenter, Taking Her Time

Right now, Mary Chapin Carpenter's favorite song is one nobody has written yet. "Off the Road Again."

After "18 months of being out there all the time touring," Carpenter is taking serious time off for the first time in five years. Actually, when her tour ended in November, she was just going to hibernate through the winter and stir awake in the spring. But in January Carpenter decided "no more in '94."

"I feel like I'm just starting to get used to it," she said last week over coffee at an Alexandria cafe. "Now it's great to call a friend on a Saturday night and be able to go out and have dinner, as opposed to `Well, I have to work tonight ... and I'm across the country.' "

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